, there is surely no historical. "Vox Populi vox Dei"
is a different concept, breathing the spirit of a different age.

How far back, then, can the dictum in these very words be traced?

Does it, as Lieber says, originally belong to the election of bishops by
the people?

Or was it of Crusade origin?

America begs Europe to give her facts, not speculation, and hopes that
Europe will be good enough to comply with her request. Europe has given the
serious "V. P. V. D." to America, so she may as well give its history to
America too.

AMERICUS.

[As this Query of AMERICUS contains some new illustration of the
history of this phrase, we have given it insertion, although the
subject has already been discussed in our columns. The writer will,
however, find that the earliest known instances of the use of the
sayings are, by William of Malmesbury, who, speaking of Odo yielding
his consent to be Archbishop of Canterbury, A.D. 920, says: "Recogitans
illud Proverbium, _Vox Populi Vox Dei_;" and by Walter Reynolds,
Archbishop of Canterbury, who, as we learn from Walsingham, took it as
his text for the sermon which he preached when Edward III. was called
to the throne, from which the people had pulled down Edward II.
AMERICUS is farther referred to Mr. G. Cornewall Lewis' _Essay on the
Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion_ (pp. 172, 173., and the
accompanying notes) for some interesting remarks upon it. See farther,
"N. & Q.," Vol. i., pp. 370. 419. 492.; Vol. iii., pp. 288. 381.]

_"Lanquettes Cronicles."_--Of what date is the earliest printed copy of
these Chronicles? The oldest I am acquainted with is 1560, in quarto
(continued up to 1540 by Bishop Cooper). Is this edition rare?

R. C. WARDE.

Kidderminster.

[The earliest edition is that printed by T. Berthelet, 4to., 1549. The
first two parts of this Chronicle, {495} and the beginning of the
third, as far as the seventeenth year after Christ, were composed by
Thomas Lanquet, a young man of twenty-four years of age. Owing to his
early death, Bishop Cooper finished the work; and his part, which is
the third, contains almost thrice as much as Lanquet's two parts, being
taken from Achilles Pyrminius. When it was finished, a surreptitious
edition appeared in 1559, under the title of Lanquet's _Chronicle_;
hereupon the bishop protested against "the vnhonest dealynge" of this